Tag: victims

I thought my bully deserved an awful life. But then he had one. I never thought I could feel empathy for the boy who tormented me in childhood. By Geraldine DeRuiter February 22 The Washington Post via Metafilter

Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn(Rebecca Hall) have just moved and are out shopping when they bump into Gordo(Joel Edgerton), an old friend of Simon’s. He visits their new home, bringing a gift, and starts to become part of their life. More from him inserting himself than them asking him. Simon doesn’t really like him. Robyn […]

In the modern world are women’s lives valued more than men’s? I ask this because I have noticed that whenever an explosion kills people (be it terrorist related, or done by some country’s army) those giving out about it state that it was terrible because women and children were among the dead or injured. And […]

Rewatched 17th Mar 2018 So, my thoughts on this rewatch are “wow, Stark is a dick, and no Pepper, his behaviour with women is not cool. Not cool at all. Also the little transphobic and homophobic jokes, so not cool. But I still enjoyed it, and I agree with my past self about the importance […]

I really liked this. Reminded me a lot of Solaris, the whole "who are we" theme. But a very different film. Loved the look of it, and the soundtrack. I've heard the book is very very different but might have to go read it at some point now.